Making the news today....

[eggsarascal]

4 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

 

 

I know my own income generally goes up year on year, but I’m never particularly any better off, I just own more crap 

Why though? I watch people (I'm thinking of a mate and our kid) who work hard to buy crap that they don't need, or use, because they can?

 

It's beyond me.

[sime42]

4 hours ago, coppice cutter said:

A niece of Mrs CC and her husband have a combined income of about £140k, it's mostly him as he has a very high up job in a local council.

 

They tell anyone dumb enough to listen that they're going to struggle to buy heating oil this winter.

 

Inflation doesn't lie, the country is awash with money and that's the main problem.

 

 

 

Ain't that the truth; there's more than enough money sloshing around in this country. That's not the whole story though, it's also about the distribution of that money. There's always people on good incomes with plenty who claim hardship, or other people with two new cars on the drive of the detached house with children in private school etc etc, who whine about having to pay tax. By contrast there are people at the bottom who genuinely do not have enough money to live properly on. (I'm deliberately not including the feckless and career benefit bums in this category.) At the top of the pyramid sit the big greedy companies, like the utilities, who wantonly rob us all. Meanwhile government just stands aside and lets them do it.

 

We live in one of the wealthiest nations in the world, yet it is also one of the most unequal in terms of weath distribution. We're seeing the fallout from that now. Scandinavian countries are similarly well off, on a national level, but are far more balanced and equal. Just my opinion, but their significantly higher quality of life, for all citizens, must be a consequence of that.

 

[coppice cutter]

5 minutes ago, sime42 said:

 

 By contrast there are people at the bottom who genuinely do not have enough money to live properly on.

 

 

 

The real irony is that such people tend to complain considerably less (if at all) compared to those who have little or nothing to complain about.

[Macpherson]

3 hours ago, sime42 said:

At the top of the pyramid sit the big greedy companies, like the utilities, who wantonly rob us all. Meanwhile government just stands aside and lets them do it.

 

Well if you were a rich guy with power in government.... where would you invest your dosh, it's got to be in a totally immoral, hugely successful scam that you've been lobbied to support for cash or similar😁

[Johnsond]

22 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

Is anyone apart from the Usual Suspects here actually surprised at this? 

 

Effects of lockdown could be causing more deaths than Covid | Daily Mail Online

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The Office for National Statistics' figures for excess deaths revealed that about 1,000 more people than usual are dying each week from illnesses and conditions other than Covid.

 

No Andy unfortunately not. 

Sadly many medical professionals were censored throughout the farce when they warned of the likelihood of events as described in this article. Those whom bought into it with a zeal verging on fanaticism will never have the guts or character to admit they made fools of themselves. As time goes by I’m more and more convinced that in the future people will look back at this and think the world went utterly nuts for 2 years. Covid 19 “the jobsworth and opinionated wankers fantasy come true”

[trigger_andy]

5 hours ago, coppice cutter said:

The real irony is that such people tend to complain considerably less (if at all) compared to those who have little or nothing to complain about.

Well that’s bs for a start. 🤣 All they do is complain they don’t have enough money and wait on their next bailout. 
 

The Green Eyed Monster is alive and well it seems. 

[sime42]

5 hours ago, Macpherson said:

 

Well if you were a rich guy with power in government.... where would you invest your dosh, it's got to be in a totally immoral, hugely successful scam that you've been lobbied to support for cash or similar😁

Talking of lobbying. Obviously £10,000 was not enough. Presumably Liz Truss was given a lot more than that

 

Suella Braverman received £10,000 leadership bid donation from prominent climate denier’s firm | Suella Braverman | The Guardian

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Attorney general declared the donation from company owned by Terence Mordaunt, who chaired the climate...

 

 

[coppice cutter]

3 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

Well that’s bs for a start. 🤣 All they do is complain they don’t have enough money and wait on their next bailout.

 

I have a lot of customers on minimum wage who just keep their head down, work away making the best of it, and gurn far less than people earning considerably more. 

 

Don't try to tell me they are figments of my imagination.

 

Being opinionated is one thing, talking out of your arse is something else.

 

I used to think you were the former, but increasingly think you're most likely the latter.

[doobin]

13 minutes ago, coppice cutter said:

I have a lot of customers on minimum wage who just keep their head down, work away making the best of it, and gurn far less than people earning considerably more. 

 

Don't try to tell me they are figments of my imagination.

 

Being opinionated is one thing, talking out of your arse is something else.

 

I used to think you were the former, but increasingly think you're most likely the latter.

He’s both 🤣

 

Annoyingly he’s right a lot of the time, but then spoils it with his ‘I’m all right jack’ attitude and complete lack of self awareness. Which I also think he puts on a bit. 
 

Theres a middle ground in every argument and every society. The problem is nobody is happy when it’s finally reached, so society lurches wildly from one side to the other.

 

Is it tree work you do for customers who are on minimum wage? I’m down south and I don’t think I’ve every worked for someone on minimum wage. 

[coppice cutter]

9 minutes ago, doobin said:

Is it tree work you do for customers who are on minimum wage? I’m down south and I don’t think I’ve every worked for someone on minimum wage. 

Sounds like you're questioning me as well?

 

My 'day' job is a motorcycle mechanic, increasingly part time.